Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-10-17

immigration QdQ put the n6LlO0 lily years
ahead in the matter of population. With
out it the west would still be wilder
mess. immigration was increasing year
by Year, and new sources of supply are
annually being opened. This is not for
tuitous, but "manifest Destiny" There
could be no menace to American instltu-
tions by those who come to this country
from foreign shores to find new home
in free country.
Mr.. Onshan held that there was no
obligation of civilization to prevent the
government from turning back the nihil-
ist, the anarchist and the communist. II
a state had the right to provide, by quar-
antine, against physical contsgion, it's
right to protect itself from more danger
Gus moral and social pollution ought not
to be doubted.
AS TO NATURALIZATION,
Mr.. Onahan said he did not believe suff-
cient safeguards were placed around the
temple of American liberty. He desired
closer scrutiny by Judges into the charac-
ter and qualifications of applicants for
naturalization. II the courts could not
properly deal with the matter, commits
sions for the work might be created. Mr..
Onahan expressed faith in the power and
disposition of the great body OF the Ameri
can people to overcome the Vaccinations
and acts of turbulence of those who would
aim to overthrow the Nations laws and
authorities.
| EX-GOVERNOR GUsTAVE KOERNER.
| A long letter was read from eX-Lieu-
tenant Governor GustaVe Koerner, Of
Belleville, H., in which he said that
pressure of business prevented him from
attending. He then proceeded to show
that no European nation OF ancient or
modern times had prohibited immigra-
ton, and then said:
It may be laid down as a general prop
osition that, in modern times, all coun-
tries which are but thinly populated, have
not only freely permitted immigration,
but have taken great pains to encourage
| it. Brazil, the Argentine Republic and
Mexico Cat least at one time) have prom
ised to immigrants great privileges as an
inducement 10 come. Some Of our own
states have not been slow to invite for
eigners to our shores, and had for years
agents all over Europe to set the peculiar
advantages of their states in proper
light, although they could not hold out
any peculiar privileges to the neW-com-
| erS.
Our national government has not par
| ticipated directly in those efforts, but it
! has of itself been the greatest inducement
to attract, we might say, almost the en-
tire immigration from Europe and else
where. Not alone our vast fertile region
waiting but for the axe and ploW to be
converted into smiling fields, but our free
institutions, granting all reasonable and
often unreasonable liberties to all alike,
and the kind and liberal spirit in which a
vast majority of our people have received
the stranger thus far on their hospiteble
shores, was the principal inducement,
was the magnetic stone that
drew millions under our ma
tional banner. And they are still coming,
as official reports show, even in increas-
ing numbers for the last two years. 1t
has been stated in statistical reports that
the territory of the United States would
afford comfortable room for GOO, 900, 900 Of
people. To restrict immigration for fear
that we might be overcrowded, as Bel
GUM or Saxony, would certainly be I'M
justifleble.
A very elaborate report of the New
York board of immigration, made some
years ago, stated that every immigrant
above legal age, being man or woman
in robust health, represented in himself q
his home country for his nursing in in
fancy, school education, training to some
craft, trade or profession, and of which
the country of his adoption would reap
the unearned benefit.
In consular report lately published by
the German government are to be found
the following statements, which have
reference only to the German emigration
to our northwest states, but are not the
less instructive: "The increase of popu-
lstion within the years of 1880 to 1885 IS
explainable only to the large immigration
into these states from the other sections
OF the United States and from foreign
countries. In the year 1886 this foreign i'm
migration amounted exclusive ofimmigra-
ton from Canada and Mexico, to $685.
CTS. A very large portion of this immi-
grafton went to the northwestern states.
The foreign immigrants to those states
do not belong, in their ma ority, to classes
without means. If, in accordance to the
observations made in the city of New
York, every immigrant brings with him
self on an average OF $50 (Women and
children are here fncluded), we may
estimate the amount brought by those
who have gone into the northwestern
states at a much higher rate, and large
majority of those who turn at once to
agricultural pursuits. According to the
census Of 1880 there dwelt In the four
states OF Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa and
Minnesota alone full 20 per cent. of the
entire German population, born in Ger
many. This proportion, in all PROBABLE
ity, has since been increased.
"By the state census of 1885 the mum
Der OF persons in Wisconsin born in Ger
many was 265,7l7 az per cent. of the
whole population), in Minnesota liz, 926
Go per cent. of the whole population), in
Iowa $780, 1896.
"Besides the settlers of German de-
scent, we have to take into consideration
above all the Scandinavian immigrants
which in Minnesots, for instance, are one
and one-half times as numerous as the
German, and who also in Dakota pre-
ponderate over all immigrants from the
other countries"
In some Of the minor states OF Europe
there was occasionally system carried
on OF exporting their paupers, and even
criminals of lighter shade, or persons
OF whom they wanted to get rid on gen.
eral principles. Vigorous measures on
the part Of our consuls have, however,